Quotes About Abstraction

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction--they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.

Humans abstract and record information in five major ways: with writing, mathematical notation, painting/photography/videography, maps, and clocks—that is, we can abstract and record verbal, numerical, visual, spatial, and temporal information.

As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

Transformational knowing of God comes from meeting God in our depths, not in the abstraction of dusty theological propositions.

Jika akan memilih buku apa saja, mari bertanya; Apakah di dalamnya terkandung penalaran abstrak mengenai kuantitas atau angka..? 'Tidak'. Apakah di situ terkandung penalaran eksperimental tentang kenyataan dan keberadaan..? 'Tidak'. Maka buanglah buku itu ke nyala api, sebab ia tak berisi apapun kecuali cara berpikir yang menyesatkan dan ilusi.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

All good art is abstract.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.